"Whatever you do will be insignificant but it is very important that
you do it." --Mahatma Gandhi

Dog Stuff

Authority without domination.
Love without subservience.
Respect without fear.

"Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of
shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well."

--Bonnie Wilcox (Old Dogs, Old Friends)

"On judgement day if God should say, "Did you clean your house today?"
I will say, "I did not, I played with my dogs and I forgot."

"It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately
loses his head and starts hamming it up"

--P.G. Wodehouse

"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think
that's how dogs spend their lives."

--Sue Murphy

"Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great
Dane."

--Smiley Blanton

"I would not give much for that man's religion whose cat and dog are not
the better for it."

--Abraham Lincoln

"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with
him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of
himself too."

-- Samuel Butler

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too
dark to read."

-- Groucho Marx

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not
bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

-- Mark Twain

"Much like the law of gravity, the laws of learning are always in effect.
Thus, the question is not whether to use the laws of learning, but rather
how to use them effectively."

-- Scott Spreat and Susan Rogers Spreat, Learning Principles

"There's facts about dogs, and then there's opinions about them.
The dogs have the facts, and the humans have the opinions. If you
want the facts about the dog, always get them straight from the
dog. If you want opinions, get them from humans."

-- J. Allen Boone, Kinship With All Life

"The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding
moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being. The bond
with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be."

-- Konrad Lorenz, Man Meets Dog

"Personally I have never trained a young dog that could be improved by
cruelty
rather than kindness, by impatience rather than understanding, or by the
stick
over the gentle hand."

--David Rees

Dog training humor (if you don't get it and are interested, read on.):

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?

Pavlov:
Through conditioning to associate the action with a reward, road
crossing became a conditioned reflex.

B.F. Skinner:
Because the R+ of road crossing exceeded the P- of NOT crossing.

Bill Koehler:
Because he had been taught the consequences of NOT crossing the road.

Karen Pryor:
Any subject, even a chicken, properly reinforced can be trained to cross
a road.